tarboat's photos

The 102ft fall at the Ardnacrusha hydro-electric power station on the Shannon is overcome for navigation by a two-rise staircase lock. The falls are 68ft and 34 ft. This is reaching the top of the deep upper chamber. The locks and power station were completed by 1929.

The Carnegie Public Library in Ayr was built in 1893. It was built to the design of Glasgow firm Campbell Douglas and Morrison. Happily it remains as the town library.

LNWR Coal Tank 1054 a short distance from Darley Dale on Peak Rail heading a freight consist southwards towards Matlock.

Remains of one of several large circular intermittent limekilns at Anston Quarry to the west of Worksop. The 1890 OS map shows six of these kilns here and five in 1916. This quarry was a large operation with a siding connection to the main line railway.

The silos are part of Ineos Silicas' plant adjacent to the Mersey at Warrington. This company subsequently merged with PQ Corporation and continued to produce inorganic chemicals at this former Crosfield's site. The blue-faced buildings are part of the Unilever washing powder plant which has now closed.

19D 3322 and 24 3655 at an accommodation crossing between Malmesbury and Moorreesburg on the Klawer branch in Western Cape.

Synthite Ltd founded in West Bromwich in 1920 to produce resins but soon became a successful manufacturer of formaldehyde. In 1928 the business was incorporated into the Charles Tennant Group, a diverse international network of manufacturing and distribution companies. 1950 saw formaldehyde production begun at the newly acquired plant at the Alyn Works in Mold, North Wales and in 1991 all production moved to North Wales. Since 2014 it has acquired amino resin manufacturing facilities in Mold and Cork from Dynea and renamed that business TS Resin and Marinochem.

A newish footrail at Haying Wood, Silverdale.

Shunting a set of brake vans at Chasewater Heaths. The lead locomotive is TH 103C which is a 1960 Thomas Hill diesel hydraulic locomotive rebuilt from a Sentinel steam locomotive (9390 of 1949). Although currently painted in NCB livery it previously worked in Stafford at British Reinforced Concrete. At the rear is Thomas Hill built Vanguard shunter ‘Helen’.

A corner of Boulby mine with the large shed for storing the product out of the Yorkshire rain. At the time the mine was producing potash and rock salt but the potash has now been replaced by Polyhalite from a deeper level.

LNWR Coal Tank 1054 heads a freight consist southwards a short distance from Rowsley South on Peak Rail.

Some odd things land on my desk. This is today's offering. I wonder whether they all served mild? DRINK MAP OF STOCKPORT. - The Gospel Temperance Union have published a "Drink map of Stockport", "giving a bird's eye view of the chief cause of the misery, poverty, and crime in the town." It is "dedicated to the thoughtful attention of all who wish the welfare of the borough, and especially of the licensing bench of magistrates." Each red spot on the map indicates a drink-shop, of which sort of plague-spot there are 302 specimens. Alliance News - Saturday 16 February 1884.

Fiddler's Ferry power station at full output back in 2006.Fiddler's Ferry power station at full output back in 2006.

Craftsmanship in gritstone is evident on these gateposts and their acorn-like toppings. Seen at All Saints Church in Youlgreave.

37 116 stands at Stockport with a track inspection train. A grab shot from a passing train.

Thelwall Lane Power Station at Latchford is operated by sembcorp as a power resilience unit using diesel generators when other, cheaper, options for supplying the national grid have been exhausted. I can find very little detail as to the capacity of the site and even when it was built. It seems to have been associated with UK Power Reserve Limited at one time.

This building in Old Market Place, Altrincham, was originally built for William Cunliffe Brooks in 1872, when he moved his banking business from 40 Church Street. The building by George Truefitt is in an Ambitious half-timbered style. The main banking hall with a 32 feet high stained glass window is flanked each side by a house, one for the manager and one for the assistant manager. Patterned tiled roofs and ornate Elizabethan style windows. Mouldings of Brooks’ crest and initials were retained when Lloyds took over the bank about 1900. It is listed Grade II and now houses a number of commercial units.

Coal Tank glint at the end of the charter at Peak Rail. LNWR 1054 is a short distance from Rowsley South.